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Two people were critically injured in a shooting on the lot of a North Linden gas station this
afternoon.

One victim was identified as Anthony Collins, 23, whose address wasn’t available. The other
victim was a 17-year-old girl. Both were in critical condition last night at Riverside Methodist
Hospital.

Columbus police Sgt. Christ Holzhauser said the girl’s condition was grave. He wouldn’t release
her name.

Holzhauser said the girl had driven a car into the Mobil station at Cleveland Avenue and Weber
Road with Collins as a passenger, about 2 p.m.

Once there, both became embroiled in an argument with a couple of people, including a young man
on a bicycle who at some point was hit by the car, witnesses told police. The man on the bicycle
then pulled a gun and fired into the car, striking both people.

Muhammad Tahir, 36, a clerk at the Mobil station, said the man who had been shot came into the
store. Tahir said he was bleeding from his head and said: “I am dying. Call the cops.” The injured
girl was still in the car when officers arrived, Holzhauser said. She had been shot in her
head.

Police were talking with several witnesses of the dispute and were hoping the station captured
some of it on surveillance cameras. Hours after the shooting, the car remained on the lot with ts
windshield wipers going. It appeared to have been damaged in a minor crash. A bicycle lay in
the middle of the lot.